Episode 6 - Colombia Vice
42minIt's 1982 and the War on Drugs is in its bloodiest year. An aerial reconnaissance mission in Colombia turns into a bloodbath for the DEA.
Episode 5 - To Hell and Back
42minApril, 2008. Operation Commando Wrath. A team of Green Berets are sent to take out a high-ranking leader of The Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, a terrorist group with links to the Taliban. Entrenched in a mountain fortress in the impenetrable Shok Valley of Afghanistan, the top-tier target is guarded by a hoard of highly-trained, heavily-armed fighters. No coalition troops have ever reached this hostile territory before. The team plan to make history, going deep behind enemy lines by air. Dropped at the bottom of the valley they face a steep 10,000 foot climb to reach their target. But before they can get close, they are lured in to a deadly trap. Surrounded and pinned down on the mountainside, they engage in a huge and ferocious gun battle. Sustaining multiple, critical casualties, they must use all their training and teamwork if they are to get off the mountain alive.
Episode 4 - Stealth Fighter Down
42min27 March 1999, The Kosovan War. As night falls over Yugoslavia, an F-117 Nighthawk stealth bomber, with the call sign Vega 31, launches from Aviano Air Base in northern Italy. His mission - to take out a heavily defended Serbian military installation in central Belgrade. Two hours later, the target has been destroyed, but so has the stealth bomber. Forced to eject after being hit by a Serb missile, pilot Dale Zelko is now falling towards the ground. Deep behind enemy lines, it's only a matter of time before he's captured by the Serbs. A NATO rescue force must launch immediately to try and reach him first.
Episode 3 - The One That Got Away
42minJanuary 1991, The Gulf War. A squad of eight SAS commandos - code named Bravo Two Zero - are dropped off 140 miles behind enemy lines in Iraq. Their task is to spy on a main supply route carrying Saddam Hussein's mobile SCUD missile launchers across the Iraq desert. And then call in air strikes to eliminate them. But the mission goes disastrously wrong. Before long three men would be dead and four captured. Only one would escape the enemy and make it out of Iraq alive - Chris Ryan, the one that got away.
Episode 2 - Memories of Hell
41minIt's June 1964 - the start of the Vietnam War. US Navy pilot Lt Charles Klusmann is flying an unarmed photo-reconnaissance mission over communist guerilla territory in neighboring Laos. His RF-8 Crusader is shot down by enemy ground troops and he is forced to eject, crashing through a tree. When rescue aircraft approach, enemy gunmen emerge and open fire. Klusmann realizes he is the bait in an ambush and bravely waves them away. Badly injured, with no hope of rescue, he endures almost three months imprisonment at the hand of the Pathet Lao. Finally he joins forces with a fellow Laotian POW to effect a daring escape. They travel 25 miles, evading capture for more than three days, before finally reaching friendly forces on 3rd September 1964. Lt Klusmann is the first American airman to be taken prisoner in the Vietnam War. And the first to escape!
Episode 1 - The Real Black Hawk Down
40minOctober 1993. Keni Thomas and Randy Ramaglia are among a squad of US Rangers and Delta Force who rope down from Black Hawk helicopters into the capital of war-ravaged Somalia. Their mission: to capture two top lieutenants of rebel leader Mohamed Aidid. But the daring raid goes disastrously wrong when Black Hawk Super 6-1 is shot down over the city. The ground troops are sent to secure the crash sites but they are outgunned and overrun, sustaining multiple casualties. When Super 6-4 pilot Mike Durant flies in to help, his Black hawk is shot down too. His crew dead, he is captured and held for 11 days. The infamous Battle of Mogadishu sees 18 Americans dead and 73 injured.